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Show fr m nipi'iiijiiii mm ri'inr-- j frfr'l pwg Ijyiiin'iw rt f iiUrtjjii jjpi 121V Told With Honest) Salt Lake Tribe ne, Sunday, February 23, 19 What seems to me has happened, McCormick said in a recent interview, is that lots of people who are impatient reading straight history will absorb an incredible amount of fact if it has excitement. A major work using the fictional form to describe actual conditions n the Soviet Union during the Stalin era is The First Circle, by Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn, the author of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. First Circle has been on the r lists since it was published by Harper & Row 19 weeks ago. Russian writers have a long tradition of using the novel as a way ot recording history, Cass Canfield, senior editor of the publishing house, said recently. NoveJ Offers Illuminating Insights By Henry Raymont New York Times Writer Shaw Trials End Untold NOVELS ON social and political topics, which one prominent editor rails faction, are in again. And memoirs, once ronsideird the old ladies of book publishing, are the r current swingers on the lists. This is the conclusion of several book editors on the basis of a year of steady sales of such works as Arthur Hailey's "Airport, Helen Mclnnes's "The Salzburg Connection and Arthur Krocks Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line. The term faction was used by Kenneth McCormick, vice president and editor in chief of Doubleday & Co., to describe "Airport, a novel based on factual reports about the hazards of overcrowded air lanes and human and mechanical failures in commercial control. Faction1 best-selle- In Analysis Novels by Edward Jay Epstein; Viking. 1X2 pp., Counterplot, $4.93. Truly as current as todays headlines is Counterplot by a young man whose firct is one of book, Inquest most scholarly of the criticisms of the Warren Commission. Are In Again, Counterplot is a mystery, the ending of which is yet to be revealed. It is an examination of the evidence and of the methods by which such evidence was gathered by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in his prosecution of the conspiracy charge against Clay Shaw. Prhate contradictory it may appear, in an attempt to substantiate his theory. No Conclusions dictory statements Garrison sucu a conclusion has made will come shortly in a Louisiana courtroom, In view of the shortcomings of the Warren Commis-- s investigation, It becomes apparent that there is no easy way to devise a anfor ultimately and such complex swering elusive historical questions as those provided by the assassination of President Kennedy. Indeed, there can be no certainty that such a process is . even within our constitutional ' means. But there can be cer-- . tainty that as long as the means by which an investigation has been conducted remain suspect, the truth will never be fully established. Roy Hudson. s Claim - A - A Eric F. Goldman went to work at the White House a few days after Lyndon Johnson became President. He was to remain for 33 months. But it was not a happy relationship, partly because Mr. Johnson demanded the impossible and Mr. Goldman tried to oblige, but mostly because the two men came from such completely different worlds. A high wall separates the academic and the political; in this case the wall couldnt be scaled. First Assignment d e Goldmans first assignment was to put together a brain trust the President said he wanted the best minds of the country to suggest goals and possible programs for his administration. And with the first assignment came the first warning of the difficulty of working for Lyndon Johnson. Secrecy was to be absolutely essential though this would mean intellectuals weie not really being brought into people to the community. the administration. fy-- Thai her Left a Heritage of Great Movies, Stars Thalberg: Life and Legend by Bob Thomas, Poubleday, 415 pp., $7.95. he had a gigantic capacity for work. He was the first real Hollywood producer. He was nei- He was a small man. He died young at the age of 37. He had a tremendous indirect influence on two generations of Americans. He was one of the first of the great Hollywood boy ther director, writer, financier, salesman. But he had the ability to gather all these taland proents in other men duce a quality product Great Stars wonders. Mr. Epstein reached no conclusions as to the validity of although Garrisons claims he does point out the contra- ions Having tasted success with Haileys earin 1965, faction Hotel, novel, Doubleday confidently published Airport last March and has watched it cling to the r list for 12 consecutive months with sales of more than 290,000 copies. As further examples of the genre that uses fictional treatment of actual events, McCormick cited Alan Drurys Preserve and Protect, the fourth of a novel purporting to show the backstage maneuvers of national Alistair politics, MacLPans Fotce 10 From Navarone, a World War II novel on the Italian campaign, and The Salzburg Connection, a mystery alxiut a Nazi conspiracy in Austria published by Harcourt, Brace & World and which has headed (he fiction list for 22 weeks. best-selle- Study With the same thought posthat Garrisessed by many have son might actually comt thing Epstein conducted his own investigation of the investigators, and in his book has tied together most of the wierd and wonderful statements and doings of the colorful New Orleans prosecutor. That Epstein is dubious both of Garrisons evidence and how it was obtained is evident. To the author, Garrison has been pursuing an almost manic course, setting Up a theory of his alleged conspiracy and then using the immense power vested in his office to collect evidence no matter how ephemeral or Proved a Winner His name was Irving Thalberg. And if he is remembered at all today by the general public it is which is doubtful only that he was the husband of movie actress Norma Irving Thalberg created the great stars of the golden Gable, EdHollywood era ward G. Robinson, Robert Montgomery, Jean Harlow. Shearer. Fine Research Bob Thomas, in this finely researched, finely written bi-g r a p h y, brings Irving Thalberg back out of the shadows and restores him to his rightful spot in the American cavalcade of the great days of Hollywood. Irving Thalberg was a frail kid out of New York who had the knack of being in the right place at the right time. He became Hollywoods first boy wonder. He had a tremendous energy, extreme good taste (a rare quality in early Hollywood, or even today) . . . and o He couldnt write a movie script. But he could take a bad script and make it come out good. He could take a shop girl and make her into a star. Irving Thalberg flashed on the scene early. He was head of production at Universal Studios when he was 20 years old. He worked day and night, burned himself out, and died in 1936 but he is still a legend among movie-maker- He produced Anna Chris-t- i with Greta Garbo . . . and the first Mutiny on the Bounty (the great one) with Charles Laughton. He imported Broadway stars like Alfred Lunt and Lyne Fontanne to artistic raise Hollywood's standards. The technical structure of tills biography is almost perfect. It should be used in college English writing courses as an example of how to plot out a biography. Always Irving Thalbergs productions had the stamp of quality . . . And so did his life. Labor of Love Author Thomas approaches his subject from various each angles in the book angle provides a different look at Irving Thalberg. All in all, a fine scholarly work that reads like a Hollywood Author Bob Thomas, I believe, approached this book as a labor of love. You cat read behind the lines and sense great respect for his subject as a human being. This, of course, enhances any biography. novel. novel. A good Hollywood Dan Valentine Current Best Sellers New York Times Service An analysis based on reports from more than 125 bookstores in 64 U.i. communities. FICTION This Last Weeks Week Week on List 1 The Salzburg Connection. Maclnnes 2 A Small Town in Ger2 many. L Carre 3 Airport. Hailey 3 4 Force 10 From Navarone. 4 MacLean 5 Preserve and Protect. 5 Drury 6 The First Circle. 9 Solzhenitsyn 7 The Hurricane Years. 7 Hawley I A World of Profit. 4 Auchincloss 9 Portnoy's Complaint. Roth 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Testimony of Two Men. Caldwell GENERAL The Money Game. "Adam Smith" Instant Replay. Kramer The Arms of Krupp. Manchester The Day Kennedy Was Shot. Bishop Thirteen Days. Kennedy Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line. Krock Miss Craig's Shape-U- p Program for Men and Women. Craig The 900 Days. Salisbury The Richand the Super-RicLundberg On Reflection. Hayes & Dody (Copyright) 36 16 10 3 19 Goldman would have been wise to return to his professorship at Princeton. Instead, stuck it out as long as he could and is now able to write an inside story of life with LBJ. Not Inside Story It is not THE inside story, nor does it reveal much that hasnt been told already. For Goldman was at the White not of the White House, House, and when, for exsuch ample, he describes things as the 1964 presidential campaign, he rehashes the work of others. However, when he writes of matters in he was personally which involved, he usually hits the exact center of the bullseye. The White House Festival of Arts of 1965, which Goldman arranged in his role of intellectual in residence, was a fiasco of astounding proportions. To begin with, it was a an attempt wretched idea to copy such John F. Kennedy successes as the Nobel Prize winners dinner and the Casals concert. It developed into guerrilla warfare between the Johnsons and the intellectuals. Poet Robert Lowell cepted an invitation, then licized his withdrawal, Not Of White House dismay and distrust of American foreign used less policy. Other doves dovish language, and on the day of the festival, intellectuals like Dwight Macdonald were behaving with an arrothat gant the President's. Goldman got the blame unjustly, of course, though that is often the fate of the and his man in the middle were House White at the days numbered. pressing o:. "The First Circle gives some very illuminating insights into recent events besides being a literary masterpiece, so we are not at all surprised at its great success. But Robert Guttwillig, vice president of the World Publishing Co., sees a deeper impatience developing in the public mood, a readers generational revolt of middle-ageagainst books by and about inhabitants of hipdom, w'hich w'ere at the height of their popularity a year or two ago. "The reaction has been a yearning for the past when America was a simpler country, for the virtues of individualism and the brotherly community, Guttwillig said. "You see this very strongly in the reception of the and we hope to publish Krock memoirs his next book or of Dr. Janet TraveUs book Office Hours: Day and Night, which tells of the dedication of a family of medical lier Editors The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Eric F. Goldman; Knopf, 531 plus xxi pp.; best-selle- c Airport A Man At, matched Kennedy Legend The fiasco has no connection with the tragedy of Lyndon Johnson as Goldman sees it. The President's legislative achievements were superb. His Yet, Goldman writes, virtues could not transform him into an engaging public in the Functioning figure. shadow of a relentless (Kennedy) legend, he was beset by a host of attitudes which that ONE-OF-A-KIN- contmuouslv fed legend Many of the persons in this book. Mi. Johnson especially won't like what is written Bid For instance. there. Movers is not quite the paragon of civic virtue lie was supposed to be. And Goldman, someperhaps unwittingly, seems a little too times pleased with himsell. Did he really, as he says, formulate Mr. Johnsons philosophy of consensus government? Goldman also blandly reveals that he supplied Drew Pearson's with derogatory material about William E Miller. Bairy Goldwaters running mate, during the 1964 campaign. It is good to kmc are only that historians human and that on occasion an intellectual can play the political game with the nudity of a professional. 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